Frag tank stocking

[Blizzahjh]

Im having a difficult time coming up with a stocklist for my frag tank. I'll give a brief backstory. I had a 36x36" frag tank made out of acrylic and after a little over a year it blew a seam and was junk. Non repairable. At this point we decided to change things up a bit on our 2nd time around. This time the tank is as follows.
1/2" glass frag tank
60x30x12
40g sump

Before i used blennys and snails, this time around im thinking im large enough for a tang however i have never had a tang before, i know almost nothing about them.

Any advice on what i might add to help keep frag plugs clean? Also interested in a wrasse suggestion.

Tank currently has 3 springeri damsels that were part of the previous system. They have shared tanks with a few different fish and been perfect neighbours, i dont think theyll have aggression issues. I also have a good size display that can take fish that need more space later on.

Thanks!

 

[andrewey]

In terms of wrasses, I'm a big fan of melanarus wrasses in these applications to deal with flatworms and some other pests, but other options include a 6 or 8 line wrasse.

 

[ReefGrammie]

In terms of wrasses, I'm a big fan of melanarus wrasses in these applications to deal with flatworms and some other pests, but other options include a 6 or 8 line wrasse.

My LFS keeps two melanarus wrasses in his frag tank for that very reason!

 

[ahiggins]

I second melanarus, or a yellow coris (for those smaller frag tanks)

 

[Blizzahjh]

I was leaning coris but they seem to like to bury in sand. Are melanarus the same? I dont really want to do a tub of sand in the corner for the wrasse to sleep. My springeri actually eat flatworms, i think my 6 line that is in my display taught them that.

No tang advice? Leaning Kole

 

[martens32]

Ornate leopard wrasses are a very pretty and unique looking wrasse. Kole tangs are awesome and constantly pick at algae throughout the tank

 

[Blizzahjh]

leopard wrasse is what im planning on putting in my display which has a thick sandbed. Been sitting on almost 400gal's of salt water aquariums with a total of 7 fish nothing bigger than a clown. Getting ansy to start stocking but ive been in the hobby long enough to know to relax and take things in stride.

3 springeri / 1 kole / 1 wrasse should be a good bioload on the frag tank. Can always add more damsels or a pair of clowns.